no shame in my game
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English
Etymology
Chosen for the rhyme.
Pronunciation
Phrase
- (slang, originally African-American Vernacular) Implying that one has nothing to be embarrassed or ashamed of in one's current activity or endeavor.
- 1988, Thomas Henderson, Out of Control, page 196:
- I hung out at Biff's, like a speakeasy, and there was no shame in my game.
- 1995, Patricia Cukor Avila, The Evolution of AAVE in a Rural Texas Community - An Ethnolinguistic Study, page 108:
- 'Cause I don' have no shame in my game. At all.
- 1997, G. Cajetan Luna, Youths Living with HIV - Self-evident Truths, page 134:
- She sucked her thumb up until a few months before her twenty-first birthday, "no shame in my game."
- 1999, Fred Goodwin, Lichtenstein Creative Media, Intelligence, page 21:
- Secondly, mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of. There is no shame in my game.